Based on Osamu Dazai's 1948 quasi autobiographical novel 'Ningen Shikkaku'.It’s no secret that BSD’s Dazai draws heavily from his real life counterpart, especially from his semi-autobiographical work: No Longer Human.

His family then takes Yozo to a sanitarium. One day Yozo and Hisako attempts to kill themselves out in the Sea of Kamakura. Yozo senses that Hisako feels a heavy sense of loneliness like himself.

But, Yozo starts to become sick of this lifestyle.Īt a cafe, Yozo meets Hisako ( Shinobu Terajima) a women who lets him drink without paying. Like Dakeichi's prediction, Yozo also becomes popular with the ladies and always has a woman next to him. Yozo starts to drink more often and starts to live the fast life like Horiki. Yozo doesn't say anything as he takes in the environment. At the bar there is poet Chuya Nakahara ( Go Morita) who proclaims 'war is brown like the color of shit'. Horiki is known for being a player and one day drags Yozo to the Blue Flower Bar run by Madame Ritsuko ( Michiyo Ookusu). In Tokyo he meets Horiki ( Yusuke Iseya), a guy six years older than him. that he will become popular with the ladies and draw beautiful pictures.ĭuring Yozo's high school years he moved to Tokyo. But Dakeichi also told Yozo a strange prediction about his life. His classmate Dakeichi found out about Yozo's eccentric behavior and told others about him. As a child he practiced smiling to hide his true feelings and to get along with others. Yozo Oba ( Toma Ikuta) was born into a wealthy family in Tsugaru.

He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. 'No Longer Human' tells the story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Fujishima, (Zenko Ohhashi, Fumio Inoue, Daisuke Niki, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa

Producer: Yasukazu Inou, Hirofumi Ogoshi, Shinichiro Inoue, Julie K.

Writer: Osamu Dazai (novel), Genjiro Arato, Yoshio Urasawa.

Movie: The Fallen Angel (English title) / No Longer Human (early working title).

Yoshiko no longer human